NEW: In November, I wrote a Guardian column headlined 'How to Survive the Broligarchy'. Pretty much everything predicted has now come true. What I'm launching today is part handbook, how to protect ourselves? And part manifesto, how to fight back? Please join me.
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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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Cover for THE WILL TO CHANGE. MEN, MASCULINITY, AND LOVE by belle hooks. Against a black background, the title is large and goes from a gradient of hot pink at the top left, to barely there speckles of orange at the bottom right. bell hooks name is in large yellow letters.
42. bell hooks should be required reading for everyone. The empathy and love she demands of us can only make us better people.
I wept at the description of the woman who only felt able to be close to her father as he lay dying.
Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!
The image is an illustration of a woman wearing a traditional thobe and kufiya, holding a flag behind her - the slogan on the flag reads "Ní saoirse go saoirse na Palaistíne", which means no freedom until the freedom of PaIestine.
Ní Saoirse Go Saoirse Na Palaistíne ✊
Twitter take two. Lord God let me not make the same jokes I publicly made last time. This time they need to be worse. And more public.
